Posted on 05/26/2021 8:19:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
“Time was invented so that everything didn’t happen at once’’.- Albert Einstein.
I know what you mean!
I have developed an aversion to veggies. Especially broccoli.
However I continue to love bacon!
I do like tomatoes and avocados...but aren’t they both fruits?
Sorry for the rambling; just sitting outside on the balcony enjoying the happiest sound on Earth: children playing in the playground next door. :)
“Religion”: a belief system shared by a lot of people
“Cult”: a belief system shared by only a few people
“Insanity”: a belief system unique to one individual.
Those definitions apply universally, with the exception of one’s own belief system. That one, as you know, is axiomatically true.
I bet Einstein and God have extremely interesting conversations in Heaven.
Indeed. Einstein did believe in God. Did God believe in Einstein?
He created him, so I guess He does! :)
God has given us so many people who contributed to the world. Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Rembrandt and Joe Biden! ;)
“God does not play dice.” I think that’s the quote.
Space can't be infinite so there is a wall out there somewhere, just don't ask what is on the other side of that wall.
We have astro physicists at the top. Jao the puppet is into string theory. Commie La is into black ho theory.
Thanks to you dsrtsage.
I wish I had a dollar for every time they said “Einstein was wrong about ______ .”, and then they realized Einstein is/was correct.
And yet they still froth at the thought of “in the beginning the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY created the heavens and the earth, and said ‘light, be”.” But have no trouble with the philosophy of naturalism, e.g. “ the universe sprang into existence because it had to” (some dead dude), in direct opposition of all logic and observation.
The heavens declare the glory of God(even if rejected by smart observer/philosophers).
I think God made it complex IOT separate the believer from the “ let us assume(er).
Exactamundo.
price gouger...
That riddle tests the limitations of language, not physics.
Right, we really should not call the pressure waves that produce sound in our ears (brains) “sound waves”.
We don’t call the light waves that produce vision in our brains “vision rays”, so we shouldn’t call pressure waves “sound waves”.
Having said that, the riddle does pose a rhetorical question regarding physics - the fact that sound does not exist until there is an ear (brain) to hear it.
Leaving aside all the confusion created by our imperfect language, what you are asking is whether or not a thing can exist outside of our consciousness. I think we will know the answer when we have a better understanding of what consciousness really is.
“...what you are asking is whether or not a thing can exist outside of our consciousness....”
No, I must have been unclear.
I am not referring to anything that philosophical - it’s purely physical.
I am simply referring to the fact that a tree falling in the forest creates pressure variations in material (including air) which vibrate at different frequencies - but these vibrations don’t become sound until they vibrate an eardrum and are interpreted as sound by a brain.
We shouldn’t call them sound waves - we should call them pressure waves or something.
To illustrate, a totally deaf person can feel the waves - the vibrations - but can’t interpret them as sound.
With sight, we don’t make the same mistake. We call them “light waves” -not “sight waves”. Light waves can travel through space, but sight doesn’t happen until light waves reach a brain capable of vision.
Interesting, do tell please...
Time and causality are caused by mass expansion. When you try to look back in time to find the origin of the universe you find that none exists, because time didn’t exist before expansion.
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